Remind me again why we need the state?
Posted on January 12th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Alistair Campbell is not ashamed - not one bit ashamed - to write this:
I worked for Tony Blair for almost a decade, but did not use a computer. I should add that the Prime Minister is not much better. He, too, is at heart a pen and paper man.
So it is with some humility that the Prime Minister leads Britain towards technological progress. And it was without the faintest knowledge of how such progress was delivered that I oversaw a revamp of Government processes to take account of the internet’s growing significance in communication with the public.
Out of Government, I have had to learn to do things for myself…
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